Thanks. Somewhat of a mystery. The older version I had was R-3.5.3patched. I cannot get the RNGversion command to run. Can you help? Thanks.
On 6/22/2019 12:25 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote: > See the NEWS, the RNG has been changed, use RNGversion > > On 21.06.2019 18:10, Steven Yen wrote: >> Dear all, >> I did all this work with older R (R-3.5.3.patched and older) >> but now with R3.6 I cannot replicate the results. >> Below I sample 60 observations from 1:500 using the sample command with >> a random seed of 123. I get different results. Advice appreciated. >> Steven Yen >> >> > # Run under R-3.6.0 >> > x<-1:500 >> > set.seed(12345671) >> > j<-sample(1:length(x),size=60); y<-x[j] >> > summary(y) >> Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. >> 26.0 134.2 240.0 249.8 368.0 500.0 >> >> > # Run under R-3.5.3.patched >> > x<-1:500 >> > set.seed(12345671) >> > j<-sample(1:length(x),size=60); y<-x[j] >> > summary(y) >> Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. >> 9.0 122.2 205.0 236.1 364.2 493.0 >> > > > Under R-3.6.0 use, e.g. > RNGversion("3.5.2") > to get reproducible results from the older RNG. > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > -- st...@ntu.edu.tw (S.T. Yen) [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.